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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

In 1919, Belgorod proclaimed itself a part of Ukraine and used Ukrainian as official language for its documents. Ethnically, it was a Rus-Ukrainian city...

There is a widespread misconception that the Scythians were the Iranian tribes that migrated to the area north of the Black (Euxine) Sea around...

His first wife who was Ukrainian presented it to him. See other famous people in this traditional Ukrainian attire >

CNN's Rapid Fire revealed that SpaceX founder's favorite rocket after his own Falcon 9 is Ukrainian Zenith https://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/05/13/elon-musk-rapid-fire-interview-rachel-crane.cnnmoney/index.html (For those who would like to know of...

The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...

The most important thing President Putin tries to impress on Ukraine’s Western friends is that he has time on his side, so the only...

November 17, 2020 during the World's Strongest Man Finals, Oleksii Novikov set a New World Record - 537.5kg (1185lb) 18-Inch Deadlift. But in this...

Anna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been...

Lancelot Lawton was a British historian, military officer, scholar of Ukrainian studies, activist, and international political journalist. In the early 1930s, he contributed to...

According to Wikipedia, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan served as artillery captain for the army of the Crown of the Kingdom...

"Mikhailichenko began his football career in the youth system of Dynamo Kyiv and made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1981 being...